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Join Links Hall for our October Events.
RSVP by calling
(773) 281-0824.
Give us your cash at the door!
LINKS HALL studio theater seats 65.
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$ELECTION: Take Us
To Your Leader
Schedule
Anti Gravity Surprise presents a series of public
artworks inviting people to share their thoughts on leadership and
create art in the process.
Weekly community events every Saturday in October
featuring spaces to make and show election art, guest
speakers, open discussions, and street performances.
Moving Stories Performance Ensemble
Ecstatic Sobriety
October 8, 9, 10, 2004
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 7pm
$15 or pay what you can.
Ecstatic: out of
your mind with joy and intensity of feeling.
Sober: be of sound mind, moderate and subdued…
How do we reconcile these extremes? A weekend of music, performance,
movement and spoken word exploring full bodied awareness: Ecstatic
Sobriety. Curated by Moving Stories (Julie Caffey, Pate Conaway
and Doug Stapleton), the performers will include MaryBeth Burns,
Barrie Cole, Jennifer Harris, Laura Hugg, Beau O'Reilly, and Moving
Stories, with music by Lonie Walker, Katie Brick, Leslie Swieck
and Valerie Gander.
Reception and Silent Auction follow the Saturday performance at
9pm; $15 or pay what you can. Reception price includes light refreshments
and beverages.
Play Day
Moving Stories will host a “Play Day” Saturday, October
9, 1-4pm, $35 – Come for an informal studio workshop integrating
visual art, movement, story and sound, where as a group we will
explore the extremes of ecstatic sobriety. The workshop is open
to those who wish to explore their creative urges.
The weekend’s proceeds will benefit Ignatia House of Chicago
- a half-way house for women recovering from alcohol and drug addiction.
CAMP, Creative Arts Melting Pot
Reveal
October 15, 16, 17, 2004
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 8pm
$15; $10 students/seniors
CAMP, Creative Arts Melting Pot, is a collective
of four unique individual artists, whose previous presentation Fear
sold out Links Hall in June 2004. Reveal takes a journey through
their repertoire, in which the manipulation of visual barriers unveils
live music, video and modern dance. CAMP merges different artistic
media to produce original work of the highest artistic caliber -
musicians, dancers, actors, visual artists and writers explore new
directions in the creation and experience of art, empowering the
audience to invent and evolve with the performers.
"…captivating swiftness and style" - Chicago Tribune
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Rebel
Princesses: 5th Annual Women's Performance Art Festival
October 22, 23, 24, 2004
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 8pm
$15, $12 students/seniors
Each year, the Women's Performance Art Festival features
a full schedule of Chicago artisans performing unique and original
works via improv, stand-up comedy, dance, performance art and much,
much more. Produced by Stockyards Theatre Project, and featuring
a different program each evening, the festival is filled with awesome,
moving, innovative work that focuses on women. The performance lineup
will be announced late September.
"...the festival is the purist women's performance event in
Chicago" - Mary Houlihan, Chicago Sun-Times
This program is partially sponsored by the
Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and Luna Bar www.stockyardstheatreproject.org
Sling Dance Company
Wanted
October 29, 30, 2004
Friday and Saturday, 7pm
$15
Sling is an interdisciplinary company. Members Lisa
Goldman, Kris Larsen, Mollie Ryan, and Jessica Young, use dance,
movement, text, and song to explore issues of everyday life. In
their new work, Wanted, Sling continues its exploration of the collective
unconscious through research into crime and mystery.
Sound Field
October 31, 2004
Sunday, 8pm
$8, $5 students/seniors
The final event in the city-wide Sound Field
2004 festival includes Kazuhisa Uchihashi (guitar, daxophone), Toshimaru
Nakamura (no input mixing board), Gene Coleman (bass clarinet) and
TV POW (Todd Carter, Brent Gutzeit and Michael Hartman; computers,
electronics, etc.). This is a release event for two CDs: Storobo
Imp. (Uchihashi/Coleman; “a great sense of integrity to this
music… fabulous playing and listening throughout”, Paris
Transatlantic Magazine) and 2 by Television Power Electric (featuring
members of TV POW and Toshimaru Nakamura; “not so much music
as sonic experimentation… well worth the effort”, Chicago
Reader). see full schedule.
soundfield.org
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